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Are out of office (OOF) messages a security risk or a useful tool? (Microsoft uses the acronym OOF for Out of Facilitiy. I’ll be using that rather than OoO for out of office). I’ve felt that the anti-OOF forces are the kind of ludite people who still agitate for a return to text only email. …

Symantec published the results of a survey regarding password habits of people who read their Security Response Weblog. Nearly 450 readers responded. As you readers of a security blog, their responses probably are far from the norm. Links: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/password-survey-results Not surprisingly, the respondents have a lot of passwords. 66 percent report having more than 10 …

After the February snow storms in the DC area there was a plethora of articles advocating the expansion of telecommuting in the Federal Government. The contractors that support the government didn’t close doors. They continued to work because many of their employees already work remotely in structured and unstructured telecommuting. Telecommuting brings new security risks. …

You dont have backups unless you have successfully recovered from them. Sometimes you just have to learn lessons the hardway if you dont take the time to learn them from others. I’ve heard a lot of commercials lately pushing Mozy or Carbonite that pretty much guarantee that everyone has a hard drive failure at some …

Last night I started upgrading Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.4 to 11.0.5. I’ve been doing these upgrades since 7.0.1 and they rarely go smoothly this one did not disappoint. As with most of these debacles, the development server upgraded without an issue. The production server looked like it installed cleanly until I went to start the …

We’re all familiar with the story of Flight 1549’s landing in the Hudson River. This week’s Mozy newsletter told a story of two sets of Jones (sorry, obscure Big Tent Revival reference). One man performed backups by copying files from one computer to another. He also used USB drives. The second man used online backup …

The next three posts will contain my notes from Shmoocon. This post contains notes from each session I attended on day 1. I’m not trying to necessarily reconstruct the notes into a coherent thought. Hopefully it will be somewhat readable. Opening Remarks by Bruce Potter People are getting owned a lot. Trends Increased success in …

A little housekeeping blog post. I’m moving webhosts this week. My old host is progressively more annoying. A few years ago the owners sold out to a company that operates many web hosting brands. After quite a bit of migration headache, things seem to have stabalized. Nevertheless, my contract is finally up, and I’ve decided …

I’ve written before about Mozy the online remote backup solution. Through the end of October, if you signup and begin using Mozy backup, we both get an extra 512 MB of backup space. (this is normally 256 MB). Your account has 2 GB of backup space for free. This is an easy way to get …

Greg Playle’s article “The Seven Week Get Healthy Plan for Small Business” in this months ISSA Journal (ISSA Membership Required) outlines 7 security steps for small businesses to consider. One of my friends recently received a telephone call from his doctor asking if he had an appointment. An upgrade of the appointment system had gone …